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Details of object number: 4700897
Title:Rimpfhof
Part:1/6
Object name:print
Collection:Provincial Council of South Tyrol
Created by:Danler, Herbert (artist) (Fulpmes, 1928-11-24 - Telfes im Stubai, 2011-07-19) GND ULAN Wikidata
Production date:1983
Description:Group of houses in black and white
Landscape with the group of Rimpfhof farm on the Sonnenberg in the Vinschgau Valley, above Schlanders/Silandro and Laas/Lasa. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: ‘H. Danler 1983’.
From the portfolio ‘Rimpf’ with 6 prints mainly in black and white by the artists Herbert Danler, Joseph Brunner, Karl Grasser, Elmar Peintner, Robert Scherer and Luis Stefan Stecher. Edition 44/200.
Landscape with the group of Rimpfhof farm on the Sonnenberg in the Vinschgau Valley, above Schlanders/Silandro and Laas/Lasa. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: ‘H. Danler 1983’.
From the portfolio ‘Rimpf’ with 6 prints mainly in black and white by the artists Herbert Danler, Joseph Brunner, Karl Grasser, Elmar Peintner, Robert Scherer and Luis Stefan Stecher. Edition 44/200.
Number/Edition44/200
Hist. crit. notes:Comprised of six original prints, the unique “Mappe Rimpf” portfolio hanging in the Provincial Council building has its raison d'être in a highly unusual and significant recovery operation. Dating back to at least 1220, the ancient Rimpfhöfe farmhouses near Silandro were once the property of the Marienberg Monastery, which originally leased them to a certain Rimpfer family. After sharecroppers and tenants deserted the area in the early 20th century, the centuries-old leases were terminated, and the buildings fell into disrepair. By 1910, the properties had deteriorated to the point where the rural buildings had to be placed under the administration of the Corces/Kortsch sub-municipal administration (separate administrations of civic use assets). By 1980, the Unterrimpfhof farmhouse (housing one of the oldest gothic rooms in the Val Venosta/Vinschgau valley) had become completely dilapidated. A large-scale recovery operation was initiated two years later to save the crumbling farmhouses from collapse. With renovations completed in 1983, the farmhouses finally reopened to the public in 1987. The newly refurbished buildings now served as a retreat to which artists could retire to write and paint. A group of local artists including Herbert Danler, Joseph Brunner, Karl Grasser, Elmar Peintner, Robert Scherer and Luis Stefan Stecher helped to fund the restoration project. They decided to compile a dossier of their original works to raise money and finance the restoration project. It was thus that the dossier was named the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio. Besides donating their works, the artists also performed manual labour on the construction site-hauling stones and restoring the masonry. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, pp. 167)
Herbert Danler (1928 - 2011) was born in Fulpmes in Tyrol. After graduating from high school, he joined his father's business as a painter. Between 1952 and 1957 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Franz Elsner and Herbert Boeckl (a leading Austrian Expressionist), who also led the Abendakt (nude) painting classes. Danler then went into teaching, helping to influence an up-coming generation of artists such as Chryseldis Hofer-Mitterer, Norbert Pümpel and Elmar Peintner. Danler worked as a freelance artist before, in 1972, helping to found the Elefant art gallery in Landeck together with its owner, Lami-Delago. The latter's habitual collaborations with artists from South Tyrol were instrumental in developing a lively cultural programme both in Landeck as well as in Hall in Tirol. Prior to the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio project, Danler had ventured into some of the more remote valleys in Tyrol and South Tyrol, where he devoted himself to oil painting and graphic works of art. His powerful, broad brushstrokes and woodcuts manifested his elegiac style. To the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio he contributed a print of a weathered old homestead with a buckled roof, marked by age. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, pp. 167, 169, 192-193)
Herbert Danler (1928 - 2011) was born in Fulpmes in Tyrol. After graduating from high school, he joined his father's business as a painter. Between 1952 and 1957 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Franz Elsner and Herbert Boeckl (a leading Austrian Expressionist), who also led the Abendakt (nude) painting classes. Danler then went into teaching, helping to influence an up-coming generation of artists such as Chryseldis Hofer-Mitterer, Norbert Pümpel and Elmar Peintner. Danler worked as a freelance artist before, in 1972, helping to found the Elefant art gallery in Landeck together with its owner, Lami-Delago. The latter's habitual collaborations with artists from South Tyrol were instrumental in developing a lively cultural programme both in Landeck as well as in Hall in Tirol. Prior to the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio project, Danler had ventured into some of the more remote valleys in Tyrol and South Tyrol, where he devoted himself to oil painting and graphic works of art. His powerful, broad brushstrokes and woodcuts manifested his elegiac style. To the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio he contributed a print of a weathered old homestead with a buckled roof, marked by age. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, pp. 167, 169, 192-193)
Material:paper
Technique:gedruckt (Kaltnadelradierung)
Dimensions:
- height: 19.3 cm
width: 37.5 cm
Physical description:Kaltnadelradierung
Keyword:Figurative